Mouse-scrolling to change active workspace.

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Mouse-scrolling to change active workspace.

Post by mich »

When using Linux Mint in LiveCD, mouse-scrolling over the workspace-swticher will change the active workspace.

However after installation and the installation of the restricted drivers, I am unable to change active workspace using the mouse-scroll.
Have to click on the specific workspace in the workspace-switcher to change it.

Where/How can I re-enable the mouse-scrolling to change active workspace?
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Re: Mouse-scrolling to change active workspace.

Post by Old Ruler »

Control Centre - Appearance - Visual Effects and set it to None.

I think it would have been set to 'None' before you installed the restricted driver, but a side effect of installing it is that that setting changes to 'Normal'.
mich

Re: Mouse-scrolling to change active workspace.

Post by mich »

Control Centre - Appearance - Visual Effects and set it to None does solve the issue,

however, then the other effects (e.g. translucent) would be all gone :)
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Re: Mouse-scrolling to change active workspace.

Post by distrohopper »

If you have effects enabled anyways, enable the desktop cube and rotate cube plugin, then you can simply press ctrl-alt, click anywhere on the screen and drag it.. you can also use ctrl-alt-left/right arrow keys to change workspaces. I know it's not the same.. but it's pretty darn easy.
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